The recently released NetBeans 8 holds a great gift for all Java Embedded Developers:

Build-in support for Remote Java Standard Edition platform.

To introduce this great and handy feature I created some screencasts:

Part1: headless

Part2: JavaFX on Pi

Part 3 – Remote Platform Debugging

José Pereda has also blogged about this feature in action: He and Mark Heckler used it in a distributed environment for their talk G-Force! Self-Powering Global Sensor Nets for IoT (JFokus 2014).

In addition to the support for a full JRE Environment its also worth to mention there is a nice editor as a fronted to the “recreate”-command provided by the all new EJDK 8:

Update/Hint
To launch Raspberry PI Java applications from within Eclipse a project called LaunchPI has been started.

For Intellij/IDEA there is a plugin called “sourcesync” that might be helpful for even remote deployment.

But by now I can’t find other approaches that are such seamless and well integrated as NetBeans Remote Platform support.